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Ibsen's Foreign Contagion - Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Wing Pinero and Modernism on the London Stage, 1880-1890 (Hardcover)
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Ibsen's Foreign Contagion - Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Wing Pinero and Modernism on the London Stage, 1880-1890 (Hardcover)
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Foreword by Professor Joseph Donohue "..Matos's important book
provides a well-researched, well-written, and fascinating
discussion of the notion of contagion from Ibsen and into Pinero
and Jones." Professor Gregory Tague, St Francis College, editor of
Origins of English Literary Modernism,1870-1914 The Independent
Theatre's production of Ghosts at the Royalty Theatre, London in
1891 precipitated one of the most famous theatrical quarrels in
European theater history. Although many have commented on the
extremity of the response from the conservative reviewers, few have
remarked on the fact that the majority of these reviews were laden
with disease metaphors. Ibsen, in the age of the classic epidemic,
comes to be perceived by his English hosts as a contagious entity.
The importance of Ghosts, then, lies in its ability, to "introduce
into the cultural matrix a germ, a foreign body, that cannot be
accounted for by its existing codes and practices" (Derek Attridge,
The Singularity of Literature, 55-6). In this scholarly monograph,
Dr.Matos treats the theatrical reviews as serious cultural
artifacts in order to avoid reducing them to mere entertaining
invective in order, ultimately, to trace the transmission of modern
dramatic innovation from Ibsen to Arthur Wing Pinero and George
Bernard Shaw. Arthur Wing Pinero wrote a series of plays in the
1890s distinctive both for their seriousness and their seeming
similarity to Ibsen. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray and The Notorious
Mrs. Ebbsmith establish Pinero as both a popular and a serious
writer, something Ibsen could never quite accomplish. Although it
is unfair to lay the "improvements" in Pinero's method solely at
the feet of Ibsen, it is fair the author believes to demonstrate
that without Ibsen's boundary-breaking work, Pinero could never
have produced these important plays, which helped bring the London
stage into the modern period and ushered in a new era of dramatic
modernism that included Shaw and Wilde.
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